Central nervous system paracoccidioidomycosis: imaging findings in 17 cases.

Purpose: To quantify the imaging findings of 17 patients with central nervous system (CNS) paracoccidioidomycosis.

Method: Retrospective analysis of the clinical data, films, and laboratory findings of 17 patients with CNS paracoccidioidomycosis. The clinical data were obtained by medical records review.

Fine-needle aspiration cytology of pulmonary rheumatoid nodule: case report and review of the major cytologic features.

Patients with rheumatoid disease may develop extra-articular lesions, affecting viscera and soft tissues. Pulmonary rheumatoid nodules show morphologic features reminiscent of a necrotizing inflammation of rheumatoid synovitis and differ from subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules only by their location, extension, and size. Although cytologic studies on pleural effusions in rheumatoid disease have long been performed, there are no more than three reports concerning the fine-needle aspiration (FNA) diagnosis of pulmonary rheumatoid nodules.